Quantified Traveler: Travel Feedback Meets the Cloud to Change Behavior
Journal of Intelligent Transportation SystemsPublished 31 October 2013
Jerald Jariyasunant, Maya Abou-Zeid, André Carrel, Venkatesan Ekambaram, David Gaker, Raja Sengupta
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The design and evaluation of a system named Quantified Traveler (QT) are described and the results from a structural equation model suggest that the results are a qualified success.
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